John Charles Walsham Reith

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John Charles Walsham Reith was a pioneering Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the first Director-General of the BBC and shaped its public service ethos.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish person
broadcasting executive
peer
person
politician
alsoKnownAs John Reith, 1st Baron Reith NERFINISHED
Lord Reith NERFINISHED
awardReceived Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh NERFINISHED
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED
birthDate 1889-07-20
birthPlace Kincardineshire NERFINISHED
Scotland
Stonehaven NERFINISHED
conflict World War I
surface form: First World War
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
createdPeerage 1940
deathDate 1971-06-16
educatedAt Glasgow Academy NERFINISHED
Gresham's School NERFINISHED
Royal Technical College, Glasgow NERFINISHED
employer British Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED
British Broadcasting Corporation NERFINISHED
familyName Reith NERFINISHED
fullName John Charles Walsham Reith NERFINISHED
givenName John NERFINISHED
honorificPrefix The Right Honourable
honorificSuffix FRSE
GBE NERFINISHED
GCB
ideology public service broadcasting
influenced BBC public service broadcasting model
development of national broadcasting in the United Kingdom
knownFor being the first Director-General of the BBC
formulating the Reithian principles of broadcasting
shaping the BBC public service broadcasting ethos
memberOf House of Lords
militaryBranch British Army
nationality Scottish
nobleTitle 1st Baron Reith NERFINISHED
Baron Reith NERFINISHED
occupation broadcasting executive
businessman
engineer
politician
positionHeld Chairman of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board
Director-General of the BBC NERFINISHED
General Manager of the British Broadcasting Company
Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland NERFINISHED
Managing Director of the BBC
Minister of Information NERFINISHED
religion Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism

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John fullName John Charles Walsham Reith
subject surface form: John Reith
John alsoKnownAs John Charles Walsham Reith
subject surface form: John Reith
this entity surface form: 1st Baron Reith
John nobleTitle John Charles Walsham Reith
subject surface form: John Reith
this entity surface form: 1st Baron Reith